{"id":71860,"date":"2018-06-04T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71860"},"modified":"2018-06-04T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:32:22","slug":"ct-christian-baker-masterpiece-cakeshop-wins-at-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71860","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Christian Baker Masterpiece Cakeshop Wins at Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text\">The high court ruled that state penalties levied against Jack Phillips, the Colorado business owner at the center of\u00a0<em>Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission<\/em>, violated his First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion since the regulations were not applied neutrally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">While the court clearly came down in Phillips\u2019s favor, Anthony Kennedy acknowledged in the court\u2019s opinion that similar cases (like those that have come up\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2017\/february\/trumps-religious-freedom-order-wont-help-baker-florist-and-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">involving photographers and florists<\/a>, as well as pizza shops and a range of other businesses) may be adjudicated differently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">As\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCOTUSblog\/status\/1003657081965240321\">SCOTUSblog<\/a>\u00a0wrote in summary, the decision still allows for the government to bar discrimination against same-sex couples, \u201cso long as the law is applied neutrally and without hostility to religion. But whether the very same law could sometimes violate free speech rights is still totally open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Today\u2019s decision still has religious freedom advocates celebrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">\u201cNo one should be forced to violate their faith in order to earn a living, and Jack, who I\u2019ve met and consider a friend, just wants to be free to live out his faith in his chosen profession,\u201d stated Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, who was \u201cdelighted\u201d at the ruling and its implications for religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2018\/june\/jack-phillips-masterpiece-cakeshop-wins-supreme-court-free-.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high court ruled that state penalties levied against Jack Phillips, the Colorado business owner at the center of\u00a0Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, violated his First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion since the regulations were<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71860\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,175,149,168,114,108,157,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-religious-freedom-persecution","category-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71862,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71860\/revisions\/71862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}